Preparing for Death 💀 in a Digital World (Top 10 Checklist)

Preparing for Death 💀 in a Digital World (Top 10 Checklist)

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Death does not come to anyone by asking. It is always sudden and people never expect it. Our lives are heavily intertwined in the digital world. As such, when (not if) that happens we should be prepared from a Cyber perspective. We have hundreds of online credentials that our lives depend on. It would make the life of our next of kin much easier if we had settled them or let them know how to settle them before our number is up. Some of the important things we can do are as follows. The best way to incorporate these tasks are to gradually implement every one of them over a period of a few weeks/months. 1. 📝 Will I always thought wills were just about money! But that's only one aspect of it. No one would want their children (under 18) to go to foster homes or go through a year of court hearings (probate) to decide who their guardians should be and how their assets should be...
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Sign/Verify Emails ✉️ with Encryption 🔐 (for Free)

Sign/Verify Emails ✉️ with Encryption 🔐 (for Free)

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What is it? Signing is essentially showing the recipient that your email address is verified by a certificate authority (CA) (hence legit) and that you are presenting that certificate to the recipient so that they can use the public key in it to encrypt the reply back. Once both parties are using each others' public keys to encrypt the messages and their own private keys to decrypt it, no one in between can intercept it and make sense of it without those private keys that are stored in your computer/phone. Why do it? Encryption: If this is a private email (which email always is, otherwise we use forums), the contents should remain PRIVATE. There is a long route your email takes from your keyboard to the destination screen! It can be intercepted anywhere in between by either hackers, phishing scams, data miners, government, your email provider that snoops on the contents of your email and creates a profile of you, sells it to advertisers...
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